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When their rental plane's engine went out, the pilot and passenger didn't panic.

"We were about 400 (feet high), going down to the shoreline (and the) engine went out," pilot Jamie Barker said.

His passenger, Gina Mason, said she had full confidence in her boyfriend's flying skills.

"I knew he had it," Mason said. "He's a great pilot. I wasn't worried."

The sight of the low-flying plane buzzing by her 17th-floor condominium on Singer Island alarmed Staci Delorco.

"I was on the balcony looking out at the water and the plane was literally on par with the 17th floor,” Delorco said. “I could feel the wind.”

A mother and her three daughters who were sitting poolside at a condominium said they saw Barker’s plane flying about 50 feet off the beach when it nose-dived. The plane landed behind the Corniche Condominium.

The woman and her daughters ran up to help, but Barker and Mason didn’t even suffer a scratch.

“It could have been a lot worse,” Mason said.

Barker and Mason are thankful that it was late in the evening and there weren’t many people on the beach.

The FAA is investigating the emergency landing. It’s unknown at this time how long the plane will remain on the beach, and if it will have to be disassembled to be removed.